摘要: Palliative care has always been a part of the children. It includes any intervention that focuses on relieving suffering, slowing progression disease, and improving quality life at stage disease. In addition, for even child with most unpredictable there are predictable times in this child's when child, family, team will be suffering ways can mitigated by specific interventions. Rather than defining pediatric palliative terms patient base, severity or general philosophy care, best understood as set tasks directed mitigating suffering. By understanding these tasks; learning to identify settings suffering; collaborate multidisciplinary specialists, use communication skills, clinical resources, pediatrician more effectively support children life-threatening illnesses their families. article, we define focus integrated all phases interventions aimed easing associated conditions. We detail an approach discuss how they implemented specialists hospice medicine. common become effective treat improve life. Finally, those situations pediatricians commonly intensely interface care—the complex, chronic conditions severe neurologic impairment (SNI).